Presented to you through Paradigm Publishing Services
Boydell & Brewer
Chapter
Licensed
Unlicensed
Requires Authentication
5 The Jujube Tree in the Eastern Mediterranean: A Case Study in the Methodology of Textual Archeobotany
You are currently not able to access this content.
You are currently not able to access this content.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Plates vii
- Contributors xi
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Introduction 1
- 1 The Legacy of Classical Antiquity in Byzantium and the West 15
- 2 Plants and Planets: Linking the Vegetable with the Celestial in Late Medieval Texts 29
- 3 Plants in the Early Medieval Cosmos: Herbs, Divine Potency, and the Scala natura 47
- 4 A Cook’s Therapeutic Use of Garden Herbs 60
- 5 The Jujube Tree in the Eastern Mediterranean: A Case Study in the Methodology of Textual Archeobotany 72
- 6 Gardens on Vellum: Plants and Herbs in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 101
- 7 The Sources for Plant Names in Anglo-Saxon England and the Laud Herbal Glossary 128
- 8 Anglo-Saxon Ethnobotany: Women’s Reproductive Medicine in Leechbook III 145
- 9 Herbs and the Medieval Surgeon 162
- 10 Rosemary: Not Just for Remembrance 180
- 11 Utility and Aesthetics in the Gardens of al-Andalus: Species with Multiple Uses 205
- 12 Hortus Redivivus: The Medieval Garden Recreated 228
- Index of Manuscripts 243
- General Index 247
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Plates vii
- Contributors xi
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Introduction 1
- 1 The Legacy of Classical Antiquity in Byzantium and the West 15
- 2 Plants and Planets: Linking the Vegetable with the Celestial in Late Medieval Texts 29
- 3 Plants in the Early Medieval Cosmos: Herbs, Divine Potency, and the Scala natura 47
- 4 A Cook’s Therapeutic Use of Garden Herbs 60
- 5 The Jujube Tree in the Eastern Mediterranean: A Case Study in the Methodology of Textual Archeobotany 72
- 6 Gardens on Vellum: Plants and Herbs in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 101
- 7 The Sources for Plant Names in Anglo-Saxon England and the Laud Herbal Glossary 128
- 8 Anglo-Saxon Ethnobotany: Women’s Reproductive Medicine in Leechbook III 145
- 9 Herbs and the Medieval Surgeon 162
- 10 Rosemary: Not Just for Remembrance 180
- 11 Utility and Aesthetics in the Gardens of al-Andalus: Species with Multiple Uses 205
- 12 Hortus Redivivus: The Medieval Garden Recreated 228
- Index of Manuscripts 243
- General Index 247